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“In a swamp, as in meditation, you begin to glimpse how elusive, how inherently insubstantial, how fleeting our thoughts are, our identities. There is magic in this moist world, in how the mind lets go, slips into sleepy water, circles and nuzzles the banks of palmetto and wild iris, how it seeps across dreams, smears them into the upright world, rots the wood of treasure chests, welcomes the body home.”

Source: Stirring the Mud: On Swamps, Bogs, and Human Imagination

“Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.”

Giving Home Rich Give Me Stress Architecture Circles Ease Knees Architect Aesthetic Clients Strain Aesthetics Horde Domes Architecture Design Architecture And Art

Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“In a sense, in the area of child care, children's relationships with parents' working has come full circle. We have gone from the mom-and-pop store (or mom-and-pop farm), with its integration of child care and work, to children-at-home and dad-at-work; to the mom-plus-daddy working at home, with its integration of childcare and work again. From mom-and-pop back to mom-and-pop.”

Children Home Care Parent Gone Mom Dad Areas Pops Stores Circles Plus Farms Integration Daddy Child Care Full Circle Childcare

Book:Why Men Earn More: The Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap--and what Women Can Do about it

Source: Why Men Earn More: The Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap--and what Women Can Do about it

“How can I call security a woman's primary fantasy if I am saying it is also her primary need? Because while her primary need is the security of a home and a family circle, her primary fantasy is that someone else will earn enough to pay for them. Hence the focus of 2 billion women on the latest royal wedding.”

Ifs Needs Enough Home Pay Fantasy Focus Security Billions Circles Primaries Royal Royal Wedding

Author:Warren Farrell

“How often you are irresistibly drawn to a plain, unassuming woman, whose soft silvery tones render her positively attractive! In the social circle, how pleasant it is to hear a woman talk in that low key which always characterizes the true lady. In the sanctuary of home, how such a voice soothes the fretful child and cheers the weary husband!”

Children Home Social Voice Keys Husband Lows Circles Attractive Tone Pleasant Cheer Weary Positively Sanctuary Low Key Unassuming

Author:Charles Lamb

“O what is it about having one's own Babe upon one's Hip that makes a Woman wish to go home to her Mother? A Desire to say: 'Look, the Circle is compleat'? A Desire to say: 'Look, I have cross'd the Divide and now am more like you'? A Desire to say: 'Look, this Babe I offer you is my most precious Gift'?”

Looks Home Mother Desire Wish Like You Offers Crosses Circles Hips Divides Babe Precious Gifts

Author:Erica Jong

“Life goes not in a straight line, lad, but in a circle. The first half we spend venturing as far as the world's end from home and kin and stillness, and the latter half brings us back, by roundabout ways but surely, to that state from which we set out.”

World Way Firsts Ends States Home Lines Half Circles Latter Stillness Straight Lines Lad

Book:Brother Cadfael: The Complete Chronicles

Source: Brother Cadfael: The Complete Chronicles

“For writers from working-class families, the making of art is cultural disenfranchisement, for we do not belong in literary circles and our writing rarely makes it back home.”

Writing Art Home Class Art Is Circles Working Class Back Home Disenfranchisement

Book:Rumors from the Cauldron: Selected Essays, Reviews, and Reportage

Source: Rumors from the Cauldron: Selected Essays, Reviews, and Reportage